At the 89th annual Academy Awards, the award for Best Adapted Screenplay was given to Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney for Moonlight. No doubt you’d probably never seen this movie. I haven’t either. According to People magazine, the film is an “adaptation of McCraney’s play, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, which tells the three-part story of Chiron, a gay black man who grows up in Florida and attempts to come to terms with his masculine, racial, and sexual identity.”
Sounds like I’ll probably skip this one. Anyway, check out the emotional speech Jenkins and McCraney gave to the well-heeled audience:
The good part of the Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney speech. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/sb3n9KlmWF
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He said:
“I told my students that I teach sometimes be in love with the process, not the result but I really wanted this result because a bajillion people are watching. And all you people out there who feel like there’s no mirror for you, that your life is not reflected, the academy has your back, the ACLU has your back, we have your back and over the next four years we will not leave you alone,” he said. “We will not forget you.”
Isn’t it ironic that he said the ACLU is watching out for minorities? Excuse me while I sit back and laugh at how boldy he lies right there on national television.
As Truth Revolt reports:
Is this the same ACLU that works every single day to guarantee that Americans can get abortions as easily and with as few restrictions as possible? Mr. Jenkins, you might want to sit down for this. In 2012, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Vital Statistics prepared a Summary of Vital Statistics 2012 The City of New York, Pregnancy Outcomes which included a very sobering fact:
… there were more black babies killed by abortion (31,328) in New York City than were born there (24,758), and the black children killed comprised 42.4% of the total number of abortions in the Big Apple.
Please. The ACLU is as concerned for black lives, as my Rottweiler is concerned for the lives of cats.
It’s time to come clean, Barry Jenkins. Like many other Blacks, you are a slave to Hollywood money, making it really hard to face the facts about the black genocide of abortion.